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May 12, 1925. 1,537,387

A. O. TROSTEL BALL OriginaLFiled June 12. 1922 WITNESSES INVENTOR AlbeitO- Tr tel j ATTQQQNEY Patented May 12, 1925.

UNITED STATES ALBERT O. TROSTEL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BALL.

Original application filed June 12, 1922, Serial No. 567,877. Dividedand this application filed July 25,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT O. TRos'rEL, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Milwaukee, county of Milwau lice, and State ofWisconsin, have invented, a certain new and useful Improvement in Balls,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to playing balls and more particularly tobaseballs.

The object of the invention is to produce a baseball in which the entirebody, when a cover is used, or the entire ball without a cover, is madeof compressed felted keratoid material which retains its shape andresiliency under hard usage and which re quires no windings to keep itin shape.

A further object of the invention is to provide a baseball which answersassociation requirements, which is much simpler in construction than theusual baseball and may be produced at a low cost.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is avertical sectional view through a ballembodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through aball similar to Fig. 1 and provided with a cover.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral Serial No. 653,621.

3 in Fig. 1 designates the ball constructed filed June 12, 1922, ofwhich this application is a division.

What I claim as my invention is:

l. A ball having its body composed entirely of compressed homogeneousfelted keratoid material.

2. A baseball in which the entire body of the ball is composed of feltedhair compressed to finished spherical form. I

3. A baseball in which the entire body of the ball is composed of feltedhair compressed to finished spherical form, and an outside covering forsaid body.

ALBERT O. TROSTEL.

